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Joseph Ray Dunbar, 17, was on a work experience visit to the mine
before he was officially due to start work there today, November 22.

“He was so excited and he just wanted to get down there,” said Pip Timms, his
mother. She said that her son had been going off the rails, but getting the
job at the mine had helped him turn his life around. As he went down the
shaft for the first time “he was grinning from ear to ear and he gave the
thumbs-up back. He was just so happy to be down there”, said